Operational Advances in Tourism Research

Abstract

Tourism has become an important economic sector. This paper aims  to  highlight  recent  developments in applied tourism research. After a sketch of the background of current tourism trends, it describes ten key issues and concerns in tourism followed by an outline of ten operational research methodologies in modern tourism research. These considerations are then illustrated by means of an empirical application to policy development regarding macro-economic effects of tourism in the area of cultural heritage. The case study under consideration, the city of Amsterdam, is empirically analyzed by means of meta-analysis, input-output analysis and micro-simulation.